LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A number of center faculties within the Clark County College District will obtain safety upgrades amid a priority of violence on campus.
CCSD directors have mentioned there is a rise in violence in center faculties. To deal with this, some campuses will get a single level of entry, fencing across the faculty, and new safety cameras.
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Finally month’s assembly, the district’s board of trustees permitted to rent an architectural agency to design the upgrades for Greenspun Junior Excessive College; Schofield Center College; Cortney Junior Excessive College; Canarelli Center College; Mannion Center College; Bob Miller Center College; and Sawyer Center College.
Leonard Lither taught at CCSD till this present faculty 12 months.
“Every kid deserves a high-quality education and unfortunately I don’t think they’re often getting that,” Lither mentioned.
He has two children within the district, one is a center schooler.
“I believe you said seven schools are on that list. Seven, that’s just insufficient. And if they can find money to settle for another $12 or $13 million lawsuits, they can put more cameras than just seven schools,” Lither mentioned.
The district fast-tracked its efforts to make faculties safer after a trainer at Eldorado Excessive College in 2022 was crushed and sexually assaulted. A scholar was sentenced to 16 years in jail for the assault.
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CCSD’s former superintendent Dr. Jesus Jara, mentioned the adjustments later that 12 months.
“We are addressing the single point of entry. We are addressing the fencing that we’re seeing in our schools. We’re updating camera systems,” Jara instructed 8 Information Now on Aug. 2, 2022.
As for Lither, he mentioned the district ought to get enter from mother and father.
“Ask parents like me to come in and say what do you see that makes you feel that the school may not be safe, because I’m not trying to sell them a product. Other parents could do the same,” Lither mentioned.
In line with information, CCSD can pay $607,000 to the agency BRAND Structure, LLP, to develop designs for the seven center faculties.
CCSD declined to do a TV interview for the story however mentioned in assertion trustees permitted putting in safety enhancements earlier than the 2022-2023 faculty 12 months.
